A field guide to our evening botanicals

The Afterglow menu is built from a small garden of botanicals, each one chosen for how it behaves after dark rather than how it looks on a shelf.

When the candles come up, the bar leans into ingredients that carry warmth and edge in equal measure. Nothing here is decorative. Every leaf, root and peel earns its place by changing the way a drink lands on the second sip.

Cedar, for the forest edge

Cedar gives the Negroni its forest edge. We steep it gently, just long enough to read as warmth rather than sawdust, so the bitterness arrives wrapped in something green and resinous. It is the closest a drink comes to the smell of the room itself.

Keep it botanical, keep it precise, and let one ingredient lead. The rest are there to listen.

Shiso and yuzu carry the lighter drinks, green and sharp enough to bridge the gap between a pot of tea and a proper cocktail. They keep the early evening honest, before the menu turns golden and the bitters take over.

Bitter orange, after dark

Bitter orange and gentian hold the whole list together once the light has gone amber, the golden counterweight to a green afternoon. They are why the last drink of the night still tastes like it belongs to the same house as the first cup of matcha.